Fiachra Gibbons

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MundoÁfricaEuropaUnión Europea,

The darkest events in postwar French history took place in Paris on a filthy night in October 1961. Yet until François Hollande quietly nudged France to look them squarely in the face on Wednesday evening, they had not officially happened at all.

The massacre of perhaps as many as 250 Algerians peacefully protesting against a curfew placed on the entire north African population of the city was one of numerous atrocities during the Algerian war of independence. But here the killing was done in the centre of Paris amid the tourists and the flâneurs. Some were shot by the police, others simply pushed from bridges into the swollen Seine.…  Seguir leyendo »

EuropaUnión Europea,

Over the past few years of recession and regression, it has become a trite truism of European politics that you can't go wrong going to the right. Politicians across the continent have found a new magic formula for electoral success and survival by playing on fears of foreigners and particularly of Islam – the wink and a nod that says that immigration has been the root of our social and economic decline. This is by no means an exclusively rightwing vice. Anyone who has heard the Dutch Labour party recently will have difficulty putting light between them and the demagogue Geert Wilders.…  Seguir leyendo »

EuropaReflexionesIslam y Mundo Árabe, ,

The last time I met Hrant Dink he joked that he was "not dead yet". The next time I saw him was on television last Friday, murdered outside the newspaper he founded in Istanbul. Even with all the death threats, he believed his clear love of his country would save him. "They don't shoot pigeons here." Dink was an orphan. He was given up by his parents when he was still a small boy. To be an orphan in Turkey, a country where family is all, is a heavy burden. To be an Armenian orphan in Turkey is to simultaneously carry the genocide and the troubled consciences of all you walk among.…  Seguir leyendo »